Uttaran Das Gupta

'The Apprentice' and 'Frankenstein' are deep meditations on misguided mentorship and vengeful prodigies

In the centenary of his birth, Ritwik Ghatak continues to provoke us with the disquieting narratives in his small oeuvre of films

As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the iconic Bollywood film 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge', the Indian diaspora that it had wooed is in troubled waters

Shah Rukh Khan is India's richest actor now, but one of his early films, 'Raju Ban Gaya Genteman', was a nuanced critique of ambition and the pursuit of wealth

Aryan Khan's directorial debut, 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood', is a celebration of the Hindi film industry's clannish rituals

As we enter the 100th year of the matinee idol, it is important to revisit his legacy without falling into the lure of nostalgia

Wes Anderson presenting a restored version of Satyajit Ray's 1970 film Aranyer Din Ratri at Cannes is a fitting tribute from an admirer to a master

The controversy over 'Phule', the recent biopic of Jyotirao and Savitribhai Phule, raises concerns over film censorship in India

The sixth Mughal emperor, Aurangazeb, is the hot villain in Indian cinema now. But what do our favourite villains say about us?

Not surprisingly, rewatching Deewaar now is still an enriching experience

The 2003 film, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, recreated the revolutionary fervour of the 1970s and the Emergency - albeit with a strong tinge of nostalgia

In Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light, the symbolic protest of two working-class women echoes a rich and radical tradition in Indian cinema

Now that there will be fewer trams on the city's streets, it will not only be an ecological loss but also an aesthetic and political one

Looking backwards while going forward can prove to be a tricky business

Heckler's veto or preventing harm? Censoring films that cause offence opens up a can of worms

Watching the restored version of the 1976 film Manthan reminds one of the Emergency but also gives hope for a renewed democracy

An accusation of obscenity is usually not an attempt to control prurient art but to limit its radical potential

Laxmibai Tilak, a contemporary writer, recounts how plague camps, where patients were quarantined, were 'kingdoms of the god of death'

Earlier, Bollywood war flicks were about defending India's borders. Now, they are all about vengeance

Historian Sugata Bose, in his new book, makes a compelling case for Asia to embrace its political, cultural, and economic diversity as it reclaims its centrality in the world